On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > > > > > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing > > > > > > > the rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to > > > > > > > change my expectation if that's the case. Maybe by the end of > > > > > > > it there is a more complete system, e.g., with bash. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the Debian live > > > > > > > CD's. Ross > > > > > > > > > > > > Wanna bet? > > > > > > > > > > I think perhaps we should be less subtle (than this and my ??). > > > > > Ross, there is only one Live CD. Well, for different architectures > > > > > there is more than one - but it sounds as though you have downloaded > > > > > the wrong CD. > > > > > > > > Gee. Can't a guy have *any* fun anymore? > > > > > > Well, it felt a little unfair once there were two of us! I had already > > > felt that I had been less than fair. Sorry. :-( But come on, admit it. > > > We could have been just a tincy* bit more helpful. ;-) > > > Lisi > > > * https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/teensy > > > > Why do I feel like I'm back in Freshman English class? > > Not you. When I use slightly obscure English I try to remember that I am on > an international list and explain. I did in fact look up "tincy" to see > whether people could look it up for themselves, and even most of the Internet > didn't know it. So I referenced something that explained the meaning in > which I had used it - which was not as a girl's name! I used it in the first > place because you would know it. > > And Ross hadn't given any sign of having understood what either of us was on > about. I thought we would get an ("Oh! Of course!") > > Or maybe I just remind you of your Freshman English teacher. ;-) (I'm > probably old more than enough. Though I probably speak the wrong kind of > English.)
Unless you're in your 90s, you're not old enough. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.
